The record is dated the 21st not the 22nd and she was born on the 18th. If we can get a list together of their children, that might suggest the first names of Antonino and Carmela's parents. I am trying everything to solve this.

Here is what we have so far:Franesca Maria Munforti Born 22 Nov 1864 Died 29 Aug 1865Giuseppa Maria Munforti Born 10 Jul 1861 Died: ?Signorina Maria Munforti Born 18 March 1852 Died 12 March 1857Nunzia Munforti Born 7 January 1859 Died: ?

Nunzia is my great-grandmother (Her birth record does not have Maria as a name on it)Jerry

Haztek wrote:Here is what we have so far:Franesca Maria Munforti Born 22 Nov 1864 Died 29 Aug 1865Giuseppa Maria Munforti Born 10 Jul 1861 Died: ?Signorina Maria Munforti Born 18 March 1852 Died 12 March 1857Nunzia Munforti Born 7 January 1859 Died: ?

Nunzia is my great-grandmother (Her birth record does not have Maria as a name on it)Jerry

Jerry

You need to change Francesca's date of birth to Nov 18, 1864, as I previously mentioned. So we know that the marriage was abt 1851, or even earlier, if there were any children born earlier than March of 1852, either in this town or somewhere else. I didn't see any though in Raccuia between 1847 and 1852. I am thinking about checking even earlier though. Even with Carmela being born about 1830/1, it's possible she was having children by age 13. I've seen this in Sicilian records in other towns. I just wish there were death records online for later than 1865 because then we might have been able to track down Carmela's death record and a town of birth for her. Death or marriage records are really the ones which might give us the town of birth for Carmela. The Munforti surname is in the indices for the town, even in the early 1820s, so I am still inclined to think that Antonino was from Raccuja, even though we are not finding his birth record.

OK, I changed Francesca's birth date to the 18th. It is too bad the records don't go to 1899,like many of the town's do. I have tried writing to Raccuja a couple of times. I got an answer one time out of 3 or 4 times that I wrote about records, but I knew the actual birth date for the one I received.Jerry